humanity

Alex Hockett I am the street preacher saint and sinner dancing along that fine line and eternal circle of life and repentance When I dare speak in exclamation points Loving the in between like grass that grows in busted concrete pushing upward to heaven flat broke, I feel like a million […]

Photo By: Lisheng Chang God can you hear me? Even though my faith has waned? Even though I’ve abandoned my father’s religion? I feel empty. Poured out. I can no longer lean on man’s truth anymore even that wavers and crumbles under my feet What was, what should have been remembered, is lost. Truth […]

We meet at the base in the wretchedness of our humanity in the culpability of all that word entails for good and for evil Before we are anything man, woman, gay, straight black, white, beige, or yellow Jew, Muslim, Christian, or Atheist we are human – born naked and gasping for breath It’s in the […]

I am an unbeliever some would say an atheist but not toward this thing we call God no, it’s more complicated than that I look upon creation and like Franklin see a Creator but when my gaze falls from the stars I see the steeples and domes of worship It’s in that transition […]

I don’t like myself I feel the weight of those words in my mouth slanderous, murderous, suicidal words but true words none the less When someone says they love me i wonder – god, what’s wrong with them? something must be, for someone to like me they can’t possibly be operating with a full […]

(Photo: Eder Pozo Perez) Deadly, the clock on the nail on the wall a constant reminder of the seconds spent and going fast the world is trembling underneath the weight of dissolution antipathy for itself Murder, is a broken tail light in the name of Justice men are thrown from rooftops say her name, […]